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At the end of April, just one day before over 200,000 people arrived in Washington for the Peoples Climate March, Trump signed a new executive order authorizing offshore drilling along the Atlantic coast – but even he couldn’t have predicted the level...
by AnnaKern
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on Fri Jun 09, 2017 at 08:37 PM PDT
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And other things you've been distracted from by the Trump Circus...
We'll not be distracted by the Trump Circus (well, mostly), despite what he said in the Rose Garden and on Twitter today! On today's BradCast, just a little bit of Trump, but a...
by TheBradBlog
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on Fri Jun 09, 2017 at 06:52 PM PDT
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Leo W. Gerard is the president of the United Steelworkers union and vice president of the AFL-CIO. He cross-posted an essay today at Daily Kos and Alternet from the USW blog. It attracted far ...
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Jun 09, 2017 at 08:00 PM PDT
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Early in March, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed documents that showed that ExxonMobil’s former CEO Rex Tillerson had communicated using an alias email account. The alias name on Tillerson’s account was “Wayne Tracker.” ExxonMobil’s...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Jun 09, 2017 at 08:05 AM PDT
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A few months back, we pointed out that an op-ed in the WSJ and Judith Curry’s congressional testimony both called for a red team/blue team effort on climate science, and that we should expect to see a similar call from the Trump administration.
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by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Fri Jun 09, 2017 at 06:46 AM PDT
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It's "Angle of Repose Friday" on The After Show. Surveys say, that’s the angle in which a granular substance stays in place on a slope. We insist it’s the angle you recline on ...
by justiceputnam
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on Fri Jun 09, 2017 at 07:51 AM PDT
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Welcome back, dear reader, for the latest edition of Greenpower’s This Week in the Environment (TWITE). As always, Dr. Jon Conway stayed atop a busy news cycle in the wake of the president’s sad (but not shocking...can we be shocked by anything this...
by GreenpowerCA
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on Thu Jun 08, 2017 at 10:24 AM PDT
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Now that we’ve had a few days to process, we can take a look at how the deniers are responding to the Paris decision and the consequent We Are Still In announcement.
The deniers’ response to their biggest win yet has been more of the same. For the...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Thu Jun 08, 2017 at 06:25 AM PDT
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If it's Thursday on The After Show with Wink & Justice; then Thank God It's Giovedì (that's what we call it, because we can).
Trump policies have turned ...
by justiceputnam
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on Thu Jun 08, 2017 at 07:51 AM PDT
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Last week I wrote a diary about the need to pressure Maryland’s Republican governor, Larry Hogan:
Calling Marylanders!
We need to start pressuring our Republican governor to join with the governors of CA, NY and WA in the climate coalition.
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by Tamar
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on Wed Jun 07, 2017 at 06:10 PM PDT
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Reblogged from Daily Kos.
We researched where each candidate stands on issues ranging from Healthcare, Gun Safety, Education, Transportation and more. All information on candidates who are not Hannah Risheq was...
by Hannah Risheq
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on Wed Jun 07, 2017 at 01:03 PM PDT
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You would think Gov. Hogan would not rock any boats as the 2018 election comes up. He came off what is arguably his best legislative session, getting passage of two big items for his agenda. Bills he is opposed to, he’ll usually still let them become...
by Aximill
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on Wed Jun 07, 2017 at 11:37 AM PDT
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Hundreds of U.S. mayors are demonstrating one way to resist Donald Trump’s climate and energy agenda. They’ve joined an alliance pledging to keep supporting the Paris climate agreement that Trump has announced he will abandon.
Activists ought to...
by Meteor Blades
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on Wed Jun 07, 2017 at 01:10 PM PDT
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Hi I'm Joshua Brown, I'm 13 years old. The Georgia candidate for U.S. House just said that she does not support raising the minimum wage.
The Republicans have spread the word that keeping the minimum wage low helps the economy but some cities have...
by joshuabrownforpresident2040
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on Wed Jun 07, 2017 at 10:08 AM PDT
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OK. Quick bucket for today of dark-feathered birds. :)
The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s ...
by owktree
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on Wed Jun 07, 2017 at 09:06 AM PDT
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Unpopular President Donald Trump may be slow to do the basic job of the Executive Branch of our government, but when he does, he doesn’t even attempt to dress up his wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a lawyer who has repeatedly...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jun 07, 2017 at 08:41 AM PDT
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With the denier world doing nothing but patting itself on the back lately, we’ve had time to think about some bigger, deeper issues. In honor of Wonder Woman maybe being a feminist icon and maybe just being good ol’ American propaganda, today we’ll...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Wed Jun 07, 2017 at 07:10 AM PDT
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It's "Wednesday's Child is Full of Whoa! Wednesdays" on The After Show. We were going to call it "Germanic Mercury" but you know what they say, one cannot live on Greek and Roman gods, alone. At least, not in America.
A musician from the Missouri...
by justiceputnam
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on Wed Jun 07, 2017 at 07:51 AM PDT
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by RubenBolling
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr.’s (D. PA) re-election campaign:
President Trump just dealt a devastating blow to our environment and to hardworking Pennsylvanians.
His reckless decision to pull out of the Paris...
by poopdogcomedy
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Sorry to break it to you Tweeto, but the Women’s March was three times larger than the crowds at your inauguration.
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